News From A Colorful Perspective
In Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, Sheriff Leon Lott is calling for the state to enact a hate crime law after his department was not able to charge a 16-year-old for four days after he made racially charged death threats. The teenager was eventually charged four days after making two…
The #JusticeForElijah hashtag trended on Twitter this week after 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin was fatally stabbed by 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams for listening to rap music Adams found “threatening.” Al-Amin was at a gas station Thursday morning when Adams approached the teen from behind and stabbed him with a pocket knife….
The intersection in Kansas City, Missouri is now a place filled with tragedy. Brooklyn Lindsey, a 32-year-old Black transgender woman that was beloved by her community, was found dead on a porch by Kansas City Police on Tuesday, according to CNN. She had been shot multiple times and her death…
Alexia Washington went with one of her friends to a Mississippi drive-thru restaurant called Who Dat’s last Friday. But Washington had a feeling something was wrong after they were given their food. She decided to look at her receipt. “Something told me to look at my receipt,” Washington said, according to…
At least 12 motorcyclists purposefully left dark skid marks on a brand new $30,000 rainbow crosswalk in an Albuquerque, New Mexico community. But residents and politicians are not having it. The crosswalk was just revealed on Monday, in time for Gay Pride Month, and it was three times the cost…
Fatoumata Camara was getting off the Bx35 bus last month in the Bronx, New York when a group of teenagers started punching her and calling her racist names. They beat Camara, a Muslim woman, so badly she suffered a broken nose and head injury. Camara said it’s a hate crime….
(Pictured: Warren Stratton and Troy Noe) Warren Stratton, a 66-year-old white man, who harassed an interracial couple at a bar in Daytona Beach on Mother’s Day is facing a hate crime charge. Derryann Wood, a Black man, took his white wife, Tiffany Wood, out to eat at Tailgatorz Sports Bar…
Bowie State University student 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III was visiting friends at the University of Maryland in May 2017 when he was violently attacked and stabbed to death by Sean Urbanski, a white man. Urbanski is in custody and awaiting trial. On Thursday, Prince George’s County Circuit Court Judge…
A New Jersey man violently verbally and physically attacked a man on a New Jersey bus on May 2. The suspect was arrested and charged this week with bias intimidation, terroristic threats and aggravated assault with a weapon. In the video, you can see and hear as Victor Colon, 51,…
Holden Matthews has been charged with three counts of arson and three hate crimes – one for each of the Black churches that he burned down in Louisiana parish within 10 days. Matthews pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday for the fires that destroyed St. Mary Baptist Church…
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